scandal in the or, a local doctor accused of performing hundreds of unnecessary operations. >> he put two cents in and almost immediately, i felt relief. >> tonight the new lawsuit and what one patient is saying. hello everybody i'm denise kock. >> and i'm vic carter. >> st. vincent's hospital sent letters to people who may have

unnecessarily received stint. mike helgren investigates. >> reporter: a stint can be a lifesaver, bringing relief to back pain. they found more than 300 may have unnecessarily had the procedure. >> in the month that insue after stint is placed -- >> reporter: the only doctor implicated was one of their star. >> of all the places in your body, to be putting unnecessary applications in a heart. >> reporter: we conducted a review and notified our patients and physicians. our focus has been and will continue to put our patients

first. >> if i would need another stent, i would want dr. maday to do it. dr.maday said i had a 90% blockage. and the person who did the previous reading said i was 50% block. i just said to him, how do you know who's right. >> reporter: dr. maday told the baltimore sun he's confident he acted in the best interest of his patients. >> he put two stents in and immediately i felt relief. >> in any way we're debating that all stent done at the hospital were unnecessary. >> reporter: st. joseph's has done more than 100,000 of these operations since 1980. reporting for baltimore county,

mike helgren eyewitness news. for more information including the complete station from st. joseph, log on to wjz.com. a lawsuit against terrell suggs was thrown out today. the mother of his two children candyce williams filed the suit accusing suggs of beating her several times. the couple is trying to reconcile. no criminal charges were ever filed and suggs had previously agreed to pay williams $3,500 a month in child support. two miracles today in haiti. ten days after the earthquake hit, two people were pulled from the rubble alive. but the harsh reality is setting in and crews are shifting their focus on keeping the survivors alive and moving forward. wjz is live in southeast baltimore, new at 11:00, weijia jiang finds a baltimore company

is helping pave the city. >> reporter: ten days after an earthquake shattered much of the haitian capital, focus is shifting away from search and rescue but not before two miracles. a 22-year-old man and an 84- year-old woman are both pulled from the rubble friday. other survivors are leaving port-au-prince. the government is trying to set up tent cities away from the destruction. the building process is just beginning. >> the whole back of the truck folds up hydrolically. first came days of preparing, idolia is staying in haiti for two years. a nonprofit group he founded in 2007 to offer aid to disaster

victims. this is idolia's biggest effort yet. >> so that we can open schools, hospitals and orphanages and bebegin the process toward recovery. >> reporter: the truck will also hauling this excavator behind it. to help rebuild and dig graves. >> we will help families recover the bodies of their loved ones and give them a proper burial. >> reporter: it's hard to believe one truck can help so many. though it is happening, idolia says not without struggle. >> i don't think you can prepare for death and destruction. we see it a lot in this country, what we're about to see in haiti is beyond what words can prepare us for.

>> reporter: the team are driving the team to florida early in the morning which will then be shipped to haiti on tuesday. as soon as it arrives, the team will get to work. weijia jiang, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you, weijia. stars banded together tonight in a special two hour telethon for haiti. hope for haiti now a global benefit for relief. more a dozen celebrities performed including alicia keys, beyonce, cold play, madonna, stars helped answer the phones for donations. we do not know yet how much was raised. for more on how you can help,

go to wjz.com. britain raised the terror alert. cbs news is reporting that the reason behind the upgrade is new information obtained from al-qaida officials recently arrested in africa. where those planes would head is not known. u.s. homeland security is taking this information very seriously and are meeting tonight to determine how to face the situation. flames as you see pouring from the windows of the house. but when firefighters finally got it out of control, they discovered all of the people who lived there were accounted for and there were no injuries. that was not the case in east baltimore wednesday night when two women and two children died in a house fire.

tonight family and neighbors gathered to pray. >> help us to understand and deal with this. give us a peace to be able to deal with this. >> a small shrine has sprung up at the site of the fire. fire investigators are saying in fact, the house did have two fire detectors and they were operating. and stocks slid for a second day in a row. the stock market suffered its worse set back in more than a year. concerns of president obama's plan to restrict banks. the dow finished 216 points

down, the that is -- the nasdaq slid 60 points. wjz is live downtown, new at 11:00, kelly mcpherson explains it's not the unemployed but also the under employed. >> reporter: maryland has been doing pretty well during this recession when it comes to unemployment. but this latest upset is throwing people into an increasingly competitive job market. president obama agreed to weary workers who's ohio plant has already laid off half of its workers. >> we're going to lose our job, it hurts because we have families to feed, kids to take care of. >> reporter: the unemployment rate is 10% nationally. maryland saw an increase in december when the rate rose to 7.5%, compare that to one year earlier when the rate was 5.4%. maryland is better off than 37 other states, what's not been counted here is the under employed. those are people who are not

taking unemployment benefits but still are not making enough money. >> it's a lot of individuals that used to have well paying jobs and have had to settle for a lower paying job to get back into the labor market. >> reporter: is >> reporter: is that something you guys track? >> if they're unemployed we track them, if they're under employed we do track them, but it's not as easy because they are not receiving unemployment benefits. >> reporter: government education jobs are the best place to find jobs in maryland. >> we've had a defense agency that's moving here from virginia. we had a couple of recruitment events with them. they hired 50 people on the spot. the labor department says it expected this up tick in

december because that's when employers usually release employees. how about some baseball? as part of our continuing community commitment, wjz is proud to support masn for this year's fan day. there will be interactive days and youth clinics. current and former oriole players and coaches will be on hand to sign photographs. from 11:00 a.m. to noon i'll be there. fan fest tickets are $10 for

adults and five for children. for more information you can go to wjz. >> there'll be people there all day. just go there, and somebody will be there. the dramatic rescue you don't want to miss. returning to america, director roman polanski is ordered back to the united states. how it could effect his child molestation care. the weekend is here, what will it bring? i'm bob turk, i'll have the complete first warning forecast, next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it is 38 degrees with some clouds in central maryland right now. an incredible scene from phoenix as the house is about to fall because of eroding

hillside. polanski was arrested under a u.s. warrant. he is currently under house arrest and fighting extradition. the wife of senator mccain appears on an ad endorsing same- sex marriage. the add shows cindy mccain and no h8 on her cheek. the group's website said cindy mccain contacted them and offered to participate in the ad. mccain says he respects his family's point of view, but he is still opposed to same-sex marriage. what happened as a routine tip turned into a federal case.

the story begins in the central district, especially here on mccullough. there's people inside a car with people believed to be selling drugs. they go to stop the car, the people inside see the police coming so they take off. >> reporter: police follow and put out a description of the car. police follow that car for 17 blocks, those inside they bail out. but they follow them in foot to that house right here. >> they bailed out of the car, they went into a house. once they went into the house, police secured the dwelling and saw drugs in open view. >> reporter: reinforcements are called and those inside are detained. >> went in the door, we found about seven zip lock bags of heroin, half ounce of raw heroin and $17,000 in cash. 15,000 of that was counter fit

money. >> you don't even know why i'm here. >> reporter: believe me, i know exactly what i'm here. >> reporter: police are happy that the suspect took them right into what is alleged to be a stash house. >> you know this is the combination of bad guys doing dumb things and really great police work. >> reporter: no names have been released and no charges have been filed. in fact, they don't know if the people inside that house are going to face federal or state charges or a combination of both. reporting from the police department, mike schu back to you on tv hill. >> police are not saying when charges are expected to be filed. a dog was trapped in the fast moving river, and a rescuers needed to be lowered on a helicopters to try to catch it. he was able to get ahold of the frightened animal. both of them were lifted to safety. the rescue operation played out on live television. >> yes and unfortunately the rescuers was bitten a couple of

times. >> it was a scared dog, right. >> i understand he was bitten. >> yes, but he's recovering. the dog did what you were supposed to do. but you don't bite the hand that saves you or feeds you. let's take a look at the temperatures, 38 now. right now it's on the way back up. yes, currently with 38, last hour we dropped down to 42. 30 in oakland, 32 in cumberland. a few clouds right now,39 d.c., 39 ocean city. low and mid-30s around the metro. skies are clear, back to normal positions back in the 20s. very light winds in the area. we do have one more pretty potent storm that moved through california the last few days, it's still raining there but not quite as bad as it has

been. once this system moving inland, looks like we have a couple of several dry days. but this system is going to start loading up with moisture from the gulf of mexico. when that happens, it's going to move across the country, it's going to get a lot of rain particularly around the valley. it's going to bring warmer air up the east coast and into new england. it could be in the 40s for those folks on sunday, maybe even 50 as far north as southern new england on monday. we'll be in the low to mid-50s on monday. looking for quite a bit of rain developing, but it's going to be on the mild side. we could see an inch of more or rain maybe an inch and a half. out to the west. there's still snow on the ground with mild temps and all that rain there could be some flooding, perhaps in those area, sunday night and monday. we'll be checking that for you. depends how quickly that system can move through. behind it is air of pacific origins, east winds starting

out at five to 10 knots. tonight clear to partly cloudy. it may get to 24 in certain spots. tomorrow, low 40s, a lot of sunshine a nice day. no issues tomorrow. the rain comes in on sunday afternoon all afternoon showers, could be some heavy showers at night as the front approaching. 46 our warm, 44, doesn't change at all. 46 on tuesday and 40 partly sunny skies here by next wednesday. denise. >> all right, getting warmer, thank you bob. check in with gigi barnett tomorrow morning starting at 6:00 a.m. for the morning forecast. coming up, hard hitting ray lewis is hit in the wallet, that story coming up next. ,,,,

ray lewis can afford it i'm

sure, nevertheless. >> nevertheless we have football to talk about. four nfl teams still traveling that long and winding road. saints favored by four. while in the afc the new york jets underdogs, do you think that phases rex ryan? >> we have no excuse, it's the best we've played in defense, offense and special teams. they are getting us at our best, let's see if it's good enough. i hope it will be. >> will the jets upset the colts in the big show? find out sunday. meanwhile, the nfl cash register sings. rex lewis fined for what they say is a helmet to helmet hit

on austin coley. there are still lingering questions as to whether ray led with his helmet or did he lead with the shoulder. today in orlando, morgan state university hall of famer pleads guilty to tax fraud. garnett, the blazers andre miller answering. nothing beats dunking like driving down the lane. final from boston, celtics 98 blazers 95 in over time.

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update. this is the super bowl shuffle from 1985. 25 years later some members of the team got together to do it all over again. the 2010 version can be seen during this year's super bowl in a commercial for boost mobile. >> and they still can't seem to get it together. >> they shuffle a ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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